'All this talk and struggle': John McGahern's The Dark.(Critical Essay)

The greatest in quantity striking stylistic feature of John McGahern's next to the first novel, The Dark is that the narrative voice constantly shifts between the first, next to the first and third person, until in the concluding chapter there appears to be no discernible narrative nearness at all. We know that McGahern considers turn of expression as the most important expression of the faculty of perception of reality of any fiction. In a late essay he lay it thus:

If we think of mode of expression as the man, of turn of expression as the revelation of
personality in language and that the quality of the personality is
more important than the material on the outside of ...